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Slightly different WASM observation: Traditionally, compiling an application impiled the compiler needed to know specifics of underlying hardware and/or OS sp
by sargstuff 4y ago
Slightly different WASM observation:
Traditionally, compiling an application impiled the compiler needed to know specifics of underlying hardware
and/or OS specifics (MS windows, Apple OS, etc). One thing that WASM does is remove the 'have to target
each specific hardware/OS with it's own application' by bundling the 'generic hardware/OS' as part of the
application in a ready to go, one package deal. No 'need to upgrade your OS and/or add <insert list of additional
software packages> to be able to run. So, security wise, the program doesn't need to know about anything
outside/beyond the WASM package. It does mean the application is significantly larger than just the application
less surrounding environment.
Where this is most obvious to the end user is when a application makes use of a graphical
user interface. With WASM, instead of 3 different OS looks (Apple, MS word, Unix X11), the WASM application
would have same look across all of the 3 aformentioned OS'es. Hopefuly, the application gives the user an option
to 'customize the look & feel'.